To My Future: A Message for Mercury
As spiritually aware human beings, we have a potent responsibility to understand and harness the ways in which we manifest and live our lives, as we can be the stewards of our own dreams awakened and be guided by the possibility of our reality. If we create what we think, dream, consume, believe, feel either of our own volition or an unconsciously conditioned response, why not do the best we can to inhabit our power, push our boundaries and then rest fully embodied into a larger vision of our...
Read MoreLiving and Dying by the Ego
As life is often marked by the cadence of time and events, the seasonal arrival of Dia de los Muertos recalled to memory a paper on Introspection that I wrote as part of my Yoga Teacher Training course certification requirements last year. The context of the writing was to be around my resulting thoughts of a couple chosen books: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle and The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz But really, this writing had much more to do with my own personal process of awakening,...
Read MoreMind the Gap
As we are in the thick of life transitions, gaps will inevitably appear between the known and familiar (past) and the unknown (future). Sometimes the gap is deep and wide. Other times, quite manageable. We may be able to see this huge gape coming into our field, and out of a habituated response, we start to build plans for how to conquer it or drudge across in dread. Maybe the gap is more like a bamboo trap, all hidden and seemingly innocent, until we fall in and then must spend our valuable...
Read MoreThrough the Looking Glass
I’m sure most of us have had that undeniable feeling of deja vu at some point. Perhaps we dream of a scene only to find ourselves in that exact spot sometime soon after. Or we meet someone that it seems like we’ve known before. Are these mere coincidence of situations that are interpreted by the mind as familiar? According to Psychology Today, the answer is “yes” “This feeling of knowing is related to knowledge about the source of a memory. The experience of déjà vu involves having...
Read More8 Life Lessons from the Past Decade
8 Life Lessons from the Past Decade. Yesterday, I ended a 2-week group cleanse based in Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine principles with the aim to transition into Fall season while planting seeds of change in my daily habits: eating, meditation, movement. Essentially, being selective and aware of each thing taken into the mind and body with an observance of the effects. As a result of the cleanse, I noticed a significant change in my overall mood, whereas I’d been focused primarily on the...
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